Valleywise Health is scheduled on Tuesday to reopen a unit with dozens of beds for mental health patients in west Phoenix.
Officials say reopening the 24-bed unit once again makes whole Valleywise’s behavioral health hospital in Maryvale.
A labor shortage years ago forced the closure of three hospital wings. So Valleywise offered bonuses to recruit psychiatric nurses, technicians and other new staff to Maryvale.
Now the state’s largest provider of court-ordered inpatient mental health care will have more than 400 treatment beds across metro Phoenix.
A Valleywise senior vice president says mental health is as important as physical.
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